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rfmcdonaldCanadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has returned to Earth. CBC has reported the news.
I watched the whole thing on NASA TV.
Looking good.
Astronaut Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to command the International Space Station, has returned to Earth after almost five months in orbit.
Hadfield, along with flight engineers American Tom Marshburn and Russian Roman Romanenko, returned aboard a Soyuz capsule. They landed under a large parachute in the flat steppes of Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. ET
The astronauts are expected to emerge from the capsule about 20 to 30 minutes after landing.
It marks Hadfield's first return from space in the Russian capsule — during his previous space missions, in 1995 and 2001, he travelled aboard one of the now retired space shuttles.
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The trio undocked from the space station shortly after 7 p.m. ET for their journey home. When they were about 12 kilometres from the station, the crew on the Soyuz capsule performed a successful de-orbit burn, slowing the craft down for its descent.
I watched the whole thing on NASA TV.
Looking good.
